View full sizeKenneth Lamar Bedgood, 36, poses for a mug shot in 2009 after an arrest by Mobile County deputies. He was killed in a shootout with police in September 2013 and believed to be responsible for the death of Gary Demetrius House, 45. (Courtesy of the Mobile County Sheriff's Office)

MOBILE, Alabama -- Police have confirmed the investigation
into the death of a 45-year-old man found near a creek in September has been
closed after officers determined their only suspect in the case was killed in
an exchange with police.

Gary Demetrius House, 45, was found dead of an apparent head wound near a fishing hole at Halls Mill and Azalea
roads on Sept. 3. It appeared as though he was fishing at the time of his
death.

"The case is cleared," said Cpl. Christohper Levy,
public information officer for the Mobile Police Department. "It was
abated by death."

Levy said the suspect in the case is Kenenth Lamar Bedgood, the
36-year-old killed after he led police on a chase through Prichard to Montlimar
Apartments on Azalea Road in Mobile. The fatal shootout between Bedgood and
authorities took
place at the apartment complex two days after House's body was recovered.

Bedgood was driving a stolen vehicle at the time, which
then-Chief Micheal T. Williams said matched the description of an Acura Integra
sought in the House investigation. House's widow, Erica Campbell House, told AL.com and the Press-Register that the car was initially bought for her,
although she said Gary House most recently used it as a work vehicle.

Levy confirmed the vehicle driven by Bedgood belonged to the
House family. He said Bedgood is believed to have killed Gary House during a
robbery.

Erica House declined to comment on the investigation. In
September she said she
did not know Bedgood, whose last known address was in Eight Mile.

In October, police announced they were searching for Dennie
Lee Bramlett as a person of interest in the ongoing investigation. Bramlett was
found on Nov. 1 and booked on unrelated charges. He is not believed to be
involved in House's death.